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    Back Door Rooster Man
    stacy
    • Dec 21, 2013

    Back Door Rooster Man

    I never get tired of watching the antics of Brown Rooster from the back door. When it’s not raining I usually put him outside of the...
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    Green Eggs & Ham
    stacy
    • Dec 1, 2013

    Green Eggs & Ham

    Now that it’s getting dark so early and the number of daylight hours is almost at its annual low, the ladies’ egg production has dropped...
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    Coq au Vin
    stacy
    • Nov 2, 2013

    Coq au Vin

    Last weekend we took a big step in our journey toward self-sufficiency at 5R Farm. You may recall from The Rooster Dilemma post that...
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    Guess What…?
    stacy
    • Oct 24, 2013

    Guess What…?

    It’s that time of year when many chickens go through the annual process of molting and grow a new set of feathers. It’s easy to tell when...
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    King of the Castle
    stacy
    • Oct 15, 2013

    King of the Castle

    It’s been several months since I removed the roosters from the chicken flock, and I’ve been juggling rooster housing ever since. Things...
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    Good Girl, Grace!
    stacy
    • Sep 5, 2013

    Good Girl, Grace!

    There’s exciting news today at 5R Farm. Grace has joined the ranks of the laying hens, and even more exciting is that she’s a member of...
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    Where’s Brown Rooster?
    stacy
    • Aug 17, 2013

    Where’s Brown Rooster?

    I felt the worst had happened to Brown Rooster. For those of you that haven’t been introduced to Brown Rooster yet, he is one of the two...
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    The Rooster Dilemma
    stacy
    • Jul 22, 2013

    The Rooster Dilemma

    It’s been three months since we spontaneously agreed to provide a home for six chicks that were hatched out in a friend’s grade school...
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    Bachelor Pad #2
    stacy
    • Jun 29, 2013

    Bachelor Pad #2

    As much as I love my roosters, and as much as they love the ladies, it was time to move Reuben and Ramon into their own bachelor pad....
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    Goodbye Sweet Sussex
    stacy
    • Jun 19, 2013

    Goodbye Sweet Sussex

    I’ve known for a couple of months that one of our four Speckled Sussex hens was not doing well, and she finally left us this week. I’m...
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    The Broody Girls
    stacy
    • May 25, 2013

    The Broody Girls

    Now that we’ve gotten Millie through her broody phase by letting her hatch out a few chicks, we’ve got a couple more broody girls at the...
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    Chicken Farm in the Sky
    stacy
    • May 1, 2013

    Chicken Farm in the Sky

    That’s where my little Sweet Pea is now. She left us this evening after a few weeks of us trying our best to nurse her back to health. I...
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    Poor Little Sweet Pea
    stacy
    • Apr 19, 2013

    Poor Little Sweet Pea

    I had thought about calling this post “Crazy Chicken Lady” because I’m about to divulge the lengths I will go to for one of my favorite...
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    Momma Millie
    stacy
    • Mar 21, 2013

    Momma Millie

    I have exciting news to report – our very own Millie hatched out some baby chicks! You may recall I had written about Millie wanting to...
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    Rooster Love
    stacy
    • Mar 6, 2013

    Rooster Love

    I’ve learned a lot about rooster love in the last year, a bit too much perhaps, and one thing I can say is that love hurts! We currently...
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    R.I.P. Henry
    stacy
    • Feb 9, 2013

    R.I.P. Henry

    We lost one of the good ones this week. Henry was the pint-sized ambassador of 5R Farm. He was one of our two banty roosters, the...
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    So Long, Ringo
    stacy
    • Feb 3, 2013

    So Long, Ringo

    It’s been a long time coming, but I finally decided to rehome one of our roosters – Ringo, our silver gray dorking. Now that the roosters...
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    Winter Chickens at 5R Farm
    stacy
    • Jan 19, 2013

    Winter Chickens at 5R Farm

    We’ve had several weeks of freezing temperatures in the mornings at 5R Farm this winter. When I look out the window in the morning and...
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    The Boys of 5R Farm, Part II
    stacy
    • Dec 8, 2012

    The Boys of 5R Farm, Part II

    I introduced you to Rooster Cogburn (aka Reuben) and Ramon, the two highest ranking roosters in our flock, in the previous Boys of 5R...
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    The Boys of 5R Farm
    stacy
    • Nov 16, 2012

    The Boys of 5R Farm

    I had to give up my first rooster two and a half years ago when our backyard chicken Ramona turned into Ramon, and ever since then I...
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